Meet and vote for this week's Mac Apps

Private AI meeting notes for Mac. Record meetings, transcribe them, label speakers, and create notes locally. No bot joins calls; audio and transcripts stay on your computer.

Create properly formatted academic papers with built-in APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard styles, citation management, automatic bibliographies, and Apple device sync.

Build structured outlines across Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro with flexible columns, dynamic themes, automation, and Apple Intelligence support.

Write screenplays, novels, and long-form projects in a focused editor with Fountain formatting, automatic pagination, writing sprints, and iCloud sync.

Edit photos and illustrations in a native Mac workspace with vector shapes, nondestructive filters, machine-learning selections, and a one-time purchase.

Use timers, stopwatches, and alarms in a free native Mac clock that integrates cleanly with the menu bar and familiar macOS system behavior.

Study with flashcards built around spaced repetition and active recall, with Markdown, LaTeX, images, quizzes, and iCloud sync across Apple devices.

Organize and edit RAW photos with batch processing, local adjustments, lens correction, side-by-side comparison, and the native macOS imaging engine.

Save and switch complete Mac workspaces by restoring Dock layouts, apps, folders, browser profiles, Shortcuts, and Focus modes from reusable presets.

Index PDFs, Office files, and Markdown locally, then ask questions and receive source-linked answers without sending your private documents to a hosted service.

Run natural-language file operations from a command bar attached to Finder, with previews for conversion, organization, calculations, and terminal actions.

Replace Finder with a customizable multi-pane file browser featuring fast search, batch renaming, cloud storage support, and flexible visual themes.

Capture temporary notes and calculations in a lightweight scratchpad with checklists, timers, OCR, Markdown, export tools, and optional encrypted iCloud sync.

Prepare for calendar events by opening the right apps, files, and links, hiding distractions, and restoring your previous workspace when the meeting ends.

Turn speech into text from anywhere on your Mac with a global shortcut, low-latency local transcription, file processing, and native Swift performance.

See tonight's astronomical events, viewing conditions, planets, and satellite passes from the menu bar, with timely alerts before good observing windows.

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